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Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1903, Page 6

THE LICENSING ELECTIONS. REFUTATION AND EXPLANATION. IT ii constantly asuortod by Iho Prohibition candidates seeking «cat« upon the Wollington Licensing Bench that the "advertised nrtirles on tho livonain^ question which havo boon appearing in the daily paper* originalo from tho "Liquor Party." Bald nwerticm haa throughout tho campaign bcon the- »troug point of tho«o gontlcmen. A* a matter of fact tho so-callod "Liquor Party" have been as innooont of nny kuowtotlgo of tho contontu of theoo artiolos until thoir publication at tlio Tomperanco Party. Tho writer has bcon onliroly guided by hi« owu some of equity in what ho has writlen, and has endeavoured by tho u»o of logic and oomiiion tcn«o to combat tho cant by which tho ProhibitioninU look to capture tho Liceiming Bench with tho object of furthering their own inordinate prcjudioea to tho undoing of on important and oonm'dcrablo eootion of follow-oitirenn as rospoclublo anil as much to bo rcipoctod as thoin«olvcs. Tlio writer has sought to imprera upon tho roatonablo portion of tho oitisens — anil the vast; majority of thorn aro rraionablo when a publio quoition in placod boforo their\ in a fair and modbrato spirit — tho solo aim which oan posnibly animato. pronouncod Prohibitionists in locking to attministor tho law upon a traflio wholly hateful to them, and which it is thoir life-aim to destroy ; and ho has ondoavoured to ihow that mon to coimunod by projudico ought not to bo ontruttod with tho judioial control of tho liquor traflio. Ho boliovos tho publio nt largo will ngroo with him in this viow. STRAINING THE LICENSING LAW. Tlio "Reform" candidates for tho Liconling Bench of thU city dcclaro that thoy would not if thoy coujd. and could not if thoy would, strain tho law to tho advantage of their party— tho Prohibitionists. Is it not strange that "No Liconse" apoitles — toototalorf, sworn to "taslo not, touch not, handlo not"--nhou!d bo bo anxious to administor a statute that is hateful to tiioin, if thoy do not hopo by that moans to further tho <catuo which they Imvo ospousodY Why do thoy auk that tho votes of tho electors should bo givon en bloo in their behalf as agaiuit tho modornto candidate! not loni ablo than thomnolves aud moro likoly, becauso of their freedom from lifo-lontr projudico in thin matter, to view all huloh of tho question impartially, 'and do juglico to all? In it not becauso tltoy know, m ovory ono vorsed in tho licanging laws knows, that it can bo wrested to tho advantago of thoir party that tho so-callod "Reform" candidate* aro straining every norvo and adopting ovory moans in thoir , powor to capUiro tjlio Licensing BonoliT For example, it is quito logal lo permit holds lo remain open until 11 o clock »» at proßout. Would it not bo a ntretohitifr of thu law to suddenly put tho doiiing time forward onn hour, nn proposed in tho "Reform" ticket? And this is to bo dono, if tho Prohibition candidates aro oleotod, upon their unconfirmed and unconflrmablo allegation that moro drunkenness tnkos place in lioonnod houaen between 10 and 11 p.m. than earlier in Iho uvoning. Thoro aro othor way*, too, in which tho provisions of Iho Act can bo Btrainori ; and is not Proliibitiou conscience bound to strain thoinl NO AXE TO GRIND!" Tho spirit in which Iho miscalled "Reform" candidate* would approaoh their work of dealing "oquitably" with tho applications of hcciißoes for renowals may bo areuraloly gauged from the roport of tho gpooeh of Air. A. R. Atkinson, one of their chief spotiHors, mado at tho Druids' Hall on Friday ovoning. Hero is a. significant quotation from it : — "If Iho pooplo could not kick the liquor trnftlo right out, then kick out us much as thoy could."' "Tho people," of courso. compriso tho doadly opponents of Iho liquor traffic— others do not count; and it is obvious from tho quotation given what their roproftonta lives, if olcotcd, will etidoavotir to do in Iho way of reducing Iho number of publio houses upon the smallest protoxt, or upon no protoxt at all savo that suggostod by their insufferable projudico and nrroganro. It i< not obvious that tho "No Lieonso" Party intend to gnin ns fur as possible through Iho medium of the Liconsing Bench that which thoy wero uimblo lo off oct through tlio Local Option poll? Yot Mr. Atkinson declares that "not a (iiuklo ono of tho 'Reform* candidates hnf) uu nxo to grind I" r^AS COMPANY'S STOVE SALE. GET^A RANGE AT £2, AND GET IT QUICKLY.